The Federal Bureau of Investigation refused Wednesday to comply with the House Oversight Committee’s subpoena that required the agency to turn over an unclassified informant report alleging that President Biden accepted bribes from a foreign national while he was vice president, the New York Post reported.
Last week, the House Oversight Committee issued a subpoena for an FBI file, FD-1023, that “describes an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions,” Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Senate Budget Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray.
“We have received legally protected and highly credible unclassified whistleblower disclosures,” Comer and Grassley stated.
The informant report was “created or modified in June 2020,” several months before Biden was declared the winner of the presidential election.
The FBI was required to turn over the document by noon Wednesday and provide proof that the bureau investigated the allegations. However, Comer said the agency “failed to do both.”
“We’ve asked the FBI to not only provide this record, but to also inform us what it did to investigate these allegations,” Comer stated. “The FBI has failed to do both. The FBI’s position is ‘trust, but you aren’t allowed to verify.’ That is unacceptable. We plan to follow up with the FBI and expect compliance with the subpoena.”
Instead of providing the file, the agency replied with a six-page letter raising several objections and concerns regarding the committee’s request.
FBI acting assistant director for congressional affairs Christopher Dunham claimed the unclassified informant report needs to be kept private to protect sources.
“Information from confidential human sources is unverified and, by definition, incomplete,” he wrote.
“As is clear from the name itself, confidentiality is definitional to the FBI’s Confidential Human Source program,” Dunham added. “Confidential human sources often provide information to the FBI at great risk to themselves and their loved ones. The information they provide also can create significant risks to others who may be referenced in their reporting.”
“We … hope this helps you understand that keeping this kind of source information free from the perception or reality of improper influence — and preventing the redirection of this information for non-law enforcement or non-intelligence uses — is necessary for the FBI’s effective execution of our law enforcement and national security responsibilities,” he concluded.
Comer and Grassley noted that the FBI did not dispute that the file exists but only refused to provide it to the committee.
The FBI failed to turn over the document just hours before Comer held a press conference where he revealed evidence uncovered by the committee that the Biden family and their business associates were involved in “influence peddling schemes.”
The committee accused several Biden family members of collecting at least $10 million from foreign nationals and attempting to cover up the source of the funds by funneling the money in small, incremental payments through 20 companies owned by Biden and created after he assumed the vice presidency in 2009.
What an excellent example of BIDEN-ESQUE DOUBLE THINK in action at Joe’s FBI, and they are very clearly Joe’s FBI, because like the dogs in Animal Farm who answered only to the pigs and terrorized any other animal that didn’t believe in the pigs, the FBI answers only to Joe Biden and so, will not bite the hand that feeds it.
As to the DOUBLETHINK, i.e., Hot is Cold, War is Peace, Men are really Women, consider this:
The FBI was required to turn over the document by noon Wednesday and provide proof that the bureau investigated the allegations.
“We’ve asked the FBI to not only provide this record, but to also inform us what it did to investigate these allegations,” Comer stated.
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Now, seriously how hard is it to understand what the FBI was really asked to do, which was to inform Congress of what it did to investigate the allegations of Joe Biden taking bribes.
The FBI was not asked to name the whistleblower!
They were asked an entirely different question, which they then ducked by making this about the whistleblower, to wit:
FBI acting assistant director for congressional affairs Christopher Dunham claimed the unclassified informant report needs to be kept private to protect sources.
“Information from confidential human sources is unverified and, by definition, incomplete,” he wrote.
“As is clear from the name itself, confidentiality is definitional to the FBI’s Confidential Human Source program,” Dunham added. “Confidential human sources often provide information to the FBI at great risk to themselves and their loved ones. The information they provide also can create significant risks to others who may be referenced in their reporting.”
“We … hope this helps you understand that keeping this kind of source information free from the perception or reality of improper influence — and preventing the redirection of this information for non-law enforcement or non-intelligence uses — is necessary for the FBI’s effective execution of our law enforcement and national security responsibilities,” he concluded.
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And what a bunch of political bull**** that is!
Idiotic, juvenile and disgusting!
FBI acting assistant director for congressional affairs Christopher Dunham: “We … hope this helps you understand that keeping this kind of source information free from the perception or reality of improper influence — and preventing the redirection of this information for non-law enforcement or non-intelligence uses — is necessary for the FBI’s effective execution of our law enforcement and national security responsibilities.”
EXCEPT THEY DID NOT EXECUTE THEIR LAW ENFORCEMENT AND NATIONAL SECURITY RESPONSIBILITIES IN THIS SPECIFIC MATTER INVOLVING JOE BIDEN, WHICH IS WHAT THE CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION IS ALL ABOUT – DID THEY OR DID THEY NOT CONDUCT AN INVESTIGATION?
So that spew of **** from FBI acting assistant director for congressional affairs Christopher Dunham above here about perception and reality is nothing more than ignorant mealy-mouth garbage, or just plain BIDEN-ESQUE POLITICAL KA-KA to get around the fact that NO, the FBI never conducted an investigation precisely because they are instead protecting Joe Biden, which is why they are rightfully called the “political police,” because that is exactly what they are, and believe me, having had direct experience of them, they are no enemies of government corruption in this country, but watch your *** if you are going to dare to be a whistleblower, because then you will find yourself on their wrong side!
The Daily Caller
“FBI Admits Durham Report Is Right”
Story by Brianna Lyman
15 May 2023
The FBI made a tacit admission Monday to the findings of the Durham Report showing the agency acted improperly when investigating former President Donald Trump and the alleged Russian collusion.
Special Counsel John Durham found the FBI used “uncorroborated intelligence” when it launched its investigation into Trump ahead of the 2016 election.
The report also found agents failed to maintain “strict fidelity to the law” throughout its investigation.
The FBI responded shortly after its release, acknowledging the errors made in 2016, which concedes the findings of the Durham report are accurate.
“The conduct in 2016 and 2017 that Special Counsel Durham examined was the reason that current FBI leadership already implemented dozens of corrective actions, which have now been in place for some time.”
“Had those reforms been in place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented,” the statement reads.
“This report reinforces the importance of ensuring the FBI continues to do its work with the rigor, objectivity, and professionalism the American people deserve and rightly expect.”
Durham’s report also found that “neither U.S. nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement” of the investigation.
“Our investigation determined that the Crossfire Hurricane investigators did not and could not corroborate any of the substantive allegations contained in the Steele reporting,” the report found.
This is like looking into an unflushed toilet:
The Daily Caller
“FBI Ignored Alleged Clinton Campaign Election Meddling Plan After CIA Briefed Obama And Biden, Durham Report Says”
Story by Diana Glebova
16 May 2023
The FBI didn’t open any inquiry into an alleged Hillary Clinton campaign election interference plan even after the CIA director briefed then-president Barack Obama and other senior administration officials, Special Counsel John Durham’s report noted.
The FBI received Russian intelligence analysis in July 2016 alleging that Clinton’s campaign cooked up a scheme to divert attention away from “her use of a private email server,” the Durham report stated.
The alleged scheme, dubbed the “Clinton Plan,” showed that the Clinton campaign “had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal” against Trump “by tying him to Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee,” the Durham report reads.
The intelligence community didn’t know the accuracy of the Russian intelligence, but the findings were notable enough for then-CIA Director John Brennan to inform the Obama administration “within days” of learning about it.
Brennan briefed President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Attorney General Loretta Lynch and FBI Director James Comey about the Clinton campaign’s plan, the Durham report says.
The findings also prompted the CIA to send “a formal written referral memorandum” to Comey and “the Deputy Assistant Director of the FBl’s Counterintelligence Division, Peter Strzok, for their consideration and action.”
In contrast to the speed at which the FBI opened a full investigation into Trump “on raw, uncorroborated information,” the FBI “never opened any type of inquiry, issued any taskings, employed any analytical personnel, or produced any analytical products in connection with the information,” Durham wrote.
Durham’s findings, published Monday, discredited the FBI’s approach to how it handled its investigation into Trump’s alleged contact with the Russian government during the 2016 election.
Attorney General Bill Barr appointed Durham in 2019 to investigate the origins of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI’s investigation into Trump.
Durham concluded that Crossfire Hurricane “reflected a noticeable departure” for how the bureau handled cases to Clinton, and said the FBI began their investigation of Trump without appearing “to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement.”
He also found that the FBI had a “predisposition to investigate Trump,” and did not move with “considerable caution,” as it did with cases related to Clinton.
And as if we needed any more proof as to just how worthless and stupid the Washingtonian politics have become under the RULING DEMOCRATS, here comes the smarmy pencil-neck Adam “SHIFTY” Schiff, the congress person for Snow White and Goofy in Disneyland, to give us some anyway:
Fox News
“Adam Schiff, who repeatedly claimed evidence of Russian collusion, denounces Durham report as ‘flawed'”
Story by Charles Creitz
17 May 2023
Rep. Adam Schiff, formerly the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, claimed the release of Special Counsel John Durham’s report on the origins of the Russia investigation revealed the probe was “flawed.”
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Keeping in mind that this is the idiotic TWERP who blew Trump’s first impeachment big time because he had NO EVIDENCE to support it speaking here, where the word “flawed” belongs to his efforts to impeach Trump, let’s go back to the story, to wit:
“This is an investigation that started in a flawed manner, it was conducted in a flawed manner, and its conclusion is a flawed conclusion,” Schiff told MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell on Tuesday.
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Sounds very much as if Adam is reflecting on his failed effort to impeach Trump, with his “investigation,” which was covered in detail by the Cape Charles Mirror (Op-Ed: Cut the crap, Adam Schiff!, December 16, 2018 http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/op-ed-cut-the-crap-adam-schiff/ ) starting in a flawed manner, being conducted in a flawed manner, and with its conclusion a flawed conclusion,
Going back to the story of Adam acting the complete jerk here, we have:
Schiff went on to characterize Durham’s probe as one that began because then-President Donald Trump was “badgering” his attorney general, Bill Barr, to “investigate the investigators.”
The Democrat also claimed Durham’s conclusions add “very little” to a two-year-old report from Inspector General Michael Horowitz – and does not prove a “deep state conspiracy” as alleged by Trump and members of the GOP.
He called Durham’s investigation “wasted effort” and “four years of undermining the department [of justice] and a political prosecution.”
In the past, Schiff has repeatedly claimed there is “clear evidence on the issue of collusion” between the Kremlin and Trump’s 2016 campaign.
“I don’t want to go into specifics, but I will say that there is evidence that is not circumstantial.”
“But as I’ve said all along, there’s plenty of evidence of collusion,” he told “Meet The Press” in 2017.
On “The Story,” William McGurn – a member of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board which had released an editorial calling Durham’s probe a “damning account of the corruption of the FBI and its accomplices” – was asked about the difference in opinion with Schiff.
Anchor Trace Gallagher noted the editorial board also claimed the FBI knew the discredited “dossier” compiled by ex-MI6 spy Christopher Steele “came from Clinton and was phony to begin with.”
McGurn said it is no surprise Democrats like Schiff, as well as those interviewed on Capitol Hill by Fox News Digital on Tuesday, are dismissing the Durham report.
“The Russia collusion story was the gaslighting of America.”
“It was outrageous, the falsehoods, and it involved the highest levels of law enforcement and intelligence on that part,” McGurn said.
He said that Barr seemingly ignored his own personal differences with Trump to clearly state Tuesday that the former president has been vindicated and that the Russia probe was untoward.
“Only Adam Schiff there in those clips talked about the collusion.”
“I mean, Durham said the FBI opened the investigation without any evidence.”
“He also found bias in the FBI, and he found double standards [in] how they treated the Hillary Clinton campaign,” he said.
“And the problem is so many people in Washington were implicated in this hoax that they don’t want the same thing.”
“Their strategy now is to pretend it didn’t happen and not discuss it.”
In the Fox News Digital montage, Democratic Reps. Daniel Goldman of New York, Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, and Jamie Raskin of Maryland were interviewed.
Goldman, who previously served as Democratic impeachment counsel against Trump, said it “is very disappointing to see a once venerable prosecutor clearly infected by political bias,” ostensibly referring to Durham.
Meanwhile, Raskin, a member of the House January 6 Committee, called the probe a “naked self-justification” for the millions taxpayer funds spent on “a wild goose chase.”
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And there, courtesy of the Cape Charles Mirror, is the latest bull**** in a never-ending stream of bull**** from the RULING DEMOCRATS in the sick and perverted TEN MILES SQUARE that is known as Washington, D.C.